142, Lot: 98. Estimate $500. Sold for $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Faustus Cornelius Sulla. 56 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 4.02 g). Head of young Hercules right, wearing lion's skin headdress, paws knotted below his chin; SC above FAVSTVS monogram behind / Globe surrounded by four wreaths, the larger jewelled and tied with fillet; aplustre and stalk of grain below. Crawford 426/4a; Sydenham 882; Cornelia 61. Near EF, attractively toned.
Ex Arthur Bally-Herzog Collection (Münzen und Medaillen 93, 16 December 2003), lot 41.